Microbial Pathogens and Their Impact on Hospitals -- Personal Hygiene to Prevent Infection -- The Microbiology of Hospital Associated Infections -- The Chain of Infection and Outbreak Investigation -- Host Defense Mechanisms -- The Infection Control Team -- Employee Health Service -- Epidemiology of Nosocomial Infection -- Epidemiologic Investigation and Statistics -- Functional Hospital Design and Infection Control -- Isolation and Barrier Precautions -- Neonatal ICU -- Infection Control in the Adult Intensive Care Unit -- Infection Control in the Emergency Department -- Infection Control in the Operating Room -- Burn & Trauma -- Infection Control in Long-Term Care Facilities -- Infection Control Beyond the Hospital -- Nosocomial Pneumonia -- Surgical Wound Infections -- Bacteremia -- Nosocomial Gasterintestinal Infections -- Tuberculosis in the Health Care Setting -- Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection -- Special Pathogens of Concern for Infection Control